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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

TSM Linux Client for Red Hat 7

This is a request to get the TSM linux client working and supported on Red Hat 7.

Maximun Path length

Windows Backup client crashes when the directory path length is exceeded. Customer is interested in avoing this crash or increasing the path length.

Agent:Support for Oracle Enterprise Linux

Certified OS agent for the followingOracle Linux 5.9 (Redhat compatible kernel)Oracle Linux 5.9 (UEK kernel) Certified TDP agent to run on above OS with Oracle versions10gR2, 11gR1++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Certified OS ag...

VMware Backup Support for Vapps using Vstorage API & Exclude Raw Device Mapping Disk

The DSMC client using the "Backup VM" command fails to see and backup any virtual machines on a ESXi v4.1 server. This is somewhat critical for a Enterprise environment where we use Vapps to manage our servers! The Vstorage API shrinks the backup ...

DOMAIN option to use with selective backup and archive

The TSM client option "DOMAIN" should be applicable for Selective backup and Archives.

B/A Client installation impact TIMTAM application

When the B/A client is installed it removes current gsk installation (in our case GSK7) and install its GSK8 package.

better NFSv4 TSM client support

Support the backup of NFSv4 *without* the use of global name space, including extended attributes via Linux client.

Solaris 11 Support for TSM v.6.2 Client

The RFE would require TSM v.6.2 client to be supported in Solaris 11 platform officially and compatible without any issue.

W2k8 system state backup performance improvement

We are used to systems state backup times of less than 2 minutes (W2k3). Having W2k8 clients now we see backup times of 20 minutes and more just for system state, even it's incremental and nothing has changed. You can also refer to call 75426,025,...

Enable -snapshotroot option with -filelist option on dsmc command

The TSM BA client dsmc command does not currently support the usage of the -snapshotroot option concurrently with the -filelist option when performing selective backups. We would like to use both of these options together when using the the dsmc c...